Reloading Experience--Wireless

[Derek Broughton]

Howard Coles Jr. wrote:

> Thanks indeed.  These kinds of posts should show up more often.  I'll have
> to investigate the WICD, because I have completely forsaken NM because you
> can
> only have one NIC up at a time.  Stupid idea if you ask me.

Not strictly true - though NM will only _control_ one interface at a time. 
It's not so much a "stupid" idea as just not having become mature enough to
handle more than one.  I've had both my wireless (NM controlled) and wired
(/etc/network/interfaces controlled) NICs up at once.  That's when I fixed
things and made sure that NM was controlling both...
-- 
derek